Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie

by Angelou, Maya

• ISBN13: 9780679457091
• ISBN10: 0679457097
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Where Love Is a Scream of Anguish	3	(22)
They Went Home	3	(1)
The Gamut	4	(1)
A Zorro Man	5	(1)
To a Man	6	(1)
Late October	7	(1)
No Loser, No Weeper	8	(1)
When You Come to Me	9	(1)
Remembering	10	(1)
In a Time	11	(1)
Tears	12	(1)
The Detached	13	(1)
To a Husband	14	(1)
Accident	15	(1)
Let's Majeste	16	(1)
After	17	(1)
The Mothering Blackness	18	(1)
On Diverse Deviations	19	(1)
Mourning Grace	20	(1)
How I Can Lie to You	21	(1)
Sounds Like Pearls	22	(3)
PART TWO Just Before the World Ends	25
When I Think About Myself	25	(1)
On a Bright Day, Next Week	26	(1)
Letter to an Aspiring Junkie	27	(1)
Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints	28	(2)
Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition	30	(2)
Faces	32	(1)
To a Freedom Fighter	33	(1)
Riot: 60's	34	(2)
We Saw Beyond Our Seeming	36	(1)
Black Ode	37	(1)
No No No No	38	(4)
My Guilt	42	(1)
The Calling of Names	43	(1)
On Working White Liberals	44	(1)
Sepia Fashion Show	45	(1)
The Thirteens (Black)	46	(1)
The Thirteens (White)	47	(1)
Harlem Hopscotch	48